Marino, a student life instructor at the school, got tested when she found out a former student needed a kidney - she wasn't a match but decided she would give the organ away anyway.

"I don't think it's fair of me to wait just in case someone needs a kidney," she said.

A few days after her honeymoon, she took off to Baltimore for surgery.

That's where Paul Basken enters the picture. He has Polycystic Kidney Disease, a condition that was causing his kidneys to fail, and says Brittany's donation is giving him a better life - one that is dialysis free.

When the two reconnected over Skype, Paul had a question for Brittany."The question that certainly comes to my mind is, why anybody would do such a thing for somebody that they've never met before?" he asked.

"If this is just one thing that I can do that makes the world, or even one person's world, better - that was really important to me," she said.

While she says their shared appreciation for education sealed the deal for her to donate - the two have formed a new bond through this journey.

"We're connected now for life," Marino said.

"I try to say thank you to her 1000 different ways, and I just can't figure out any more ways to do it," Basken said.